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Friday, February 12, 2016

This is the title of an excellent
article published recently by the excellent journalist Roberto Savio in Other
News and you can read the full text through this link.

I want to emphasize some paragraphs
from it:

“We
are witnessing the slow agony of the dream of European integration, without a
single demonstration occurring anywhere, among its 500 millions of citizens. It
is clear that European institutions are in an existential crisis but the debate
is only at intergovernmental level.

This
proves clearly that European citizens do not feel close to Brussels. Gone are
the 1950s, when young people mobilized in the Youth Federalist Movement, with
activists from the Federal Movement led by Altiero Spinelli, and the massive
campaign for a Europe that would transcend national boundaries, a rallying
theme of the intellectuals of the time.

It
has been a “crescendo” of crisis. First came the North-South divide, with a
North that did not want to rescue the South, and made austerity a monolithic
taboo, with Germany as its inflexible leader. Greece was the chosen place to
clash and win, even if its budget was just 4 percent of the whole European
Union.

The
front for fiscal discipline and austerity easily overran those pleading for
development and growth as a priority and it alienated many of citizens caught
in the fight.

Then
come the East-West divide. It becomes clear that the countries which were under
the Soviet Union, joined the EU purely for economic reasons, and did not
identify with the so called European values, the basis for the founding
treaties. Solidarity was not only ignored, but actively rejected, first with
Greece, and now with the refugees.”

Itis, therefore, evidentthat the unionstrictlymonetaryleads to the abyss. Let’s reflecturgentlyand,with greatcitizen involvement, let’s promote a political, economicand fiscalEuropeanUnion
based onthe principlesso
clearly enshrined inthe Charter
of FundamentalRights of the EU(2000)
and, on a global level, the re-foundation
ofa multilateral and democratic Systemof a UnitedNationsendowed
with themoralauthorityof all kinds that enables the governance needed urgently throughoutthe world, especially in social,environmental and nuclear armament issuesthat can reach points of no return. It
is obviousthat neoliberalguidelines
thathave substituted the ethical values by stock markets
and the United Nations by plutocraticgroups (G7,
G8, G20...) lead to disaster. Let’s change the directionbefore it istoo late.